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Tess Catalano "Take Back the Night" and other academic essays, 1982
1982-09-15 Catalano #5 Page 3
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[handwritten to connect with previous page] or wish to record your experience, I'll be getting back to this point in future comments. For now I'll just mention that you tend to use the semicolon to mark a pause that may or may not separate tow independent clauses; sometimes what follows your semicolon is only a phrase that extends or explains the main clause. A comma may not be strong enough to mark these points in the sentence; a dash would be the usual choice. As you implicitly and dramatically recognize in your description of the smoker's movements, punctuation marks are ways of sending signals to the listener/reader. You've developed that notion in a witty and concrete way.
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[handwritten to connect with previous page] or wish to record your experience, I'll be getting back to this point in future comments. For now I'll just mention that you tend to use the semicolon to mark a pause that may or may not separate tow independent clauses; sometimes what follows your semicolon is only a phrase that extends or explains the main clause. A comma may not be strong enough to mark these points in the sentence; a dash would be the usual choice. As you implicitly and dramatically recognize in your description of the smoker's movements, punctuation marks are ways of sending signals to the listener/reader. You've developed that notion in a witty and concrete way.
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